EduERP Alliance

EduERP & OneRoster Alliance

IMS Alliances are for the purpose of ensuring interoperability in practice and keeping implementing organizations current on the evolution of a specific set of IMS standards. Alliances were established at the request of the IMS members. The IMS members wanted support to make reliable interoperability a reality and wanted to avoid the need for every implementing organization to reinvest in the tools, processes, and interactions to integrate with every platform. In the Alliance IMS provides this support at a fraction of the cost and, most importantly, steps in on an ongoing basis to resolve issues that arise.

Under the Alliances, IMS provides extensive support to implement conformant products. When testing is completed, IMS issues a conformance certification mark that IMS stands behind. What this means is that IMS will get involved directly in any issues that arise and work across organizations to resolve.

Joining in the Alliance and working through the process in the only way to achieve official IMS conformance. Conformance seals are only issued to and maintained with current IMS Alliance, Affiliate and Contributing Members. IMS does this in order to deliver on interoperability in practice on an ongoing basis. This benefits large and small organizations alike in creating and maintaining a vital, innovative, and open marketplace for educational technology products!

The Information Architecture for Learning
The aim of the Learning Information Services (LIS) specification is to enable learning application interoperability. The key objectives are to enable the management and manipulation of:

Information about People - to provide data exchange about people who are participating in learning;

The enrolment of People on Courses - to control the exchange of information for people attending courses;

Organizational structures - to control the exchange of information for people attending courses;

Batch processing - to provide initialization and synchronization transfer of very large amounts of data.

OneRoster® is designed to be a subset of the full Learning Information Services standard that focuses on the Schools needs to exchange roster information and grades. The standard includes both SOAP and REST-based bindings make it quicker and easier to implement the exchange of information about people, membership, courses and outcomes. In addition to the standard, we have included a format for CSV files that are typically exchanged between the school and the vendor to populate the roster information needed to gain access to learning tools, portals and learning environments.

EduERP Alliance Activities

The EduERP Alliance has been created as a high value community for product and service developers wanting to be compliant with OneRoster and Learning Information Services standards.. The Alliance delivers selected services to the public, but further services are available to subscribed participants with the annual subscription fee varying according to size and nature of the organization.

Benefits of Certification

Buyers trust IMS as the neutral arbiter of truly interoperable products and content

IMS certification designates passing a set of tests that will guarantee interoperability across the widest range of integrations - across a growing range of 100s of certified products

Certification requires extensive testing and is much better than claims of “compliance"

The IMS Certification process connects your organization to an community of technical resources making implentation of the standard easier

IMS certificaton provides a specific registraton number for a product to be used in responses to requests for proposals

IMS certified products are backed by IMS technical support to troubleshoot any technical issues that may occur

Organization achieving IMS certificaton can use the IMS certification logo in product and general marketing

The IMS certification Alliance community provides continuous updates and involvement in the evolution of the standard and conformance testing

Certification is included as a benefit of IMS membership: any number of products can be certified at no additional cost for each Alliance category or all categories for Aﬃliate or Contributing Members of IMS

The IMS web site provides high traﬃc marketing exposure as the authoritative source for IMS certified products